Beavers v. Johnson Controls World Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Trujillo v. City of Albuquerque (1998), Azar v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (2003)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 85 state decisions — followed in 10 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Griffith v. Kentucky · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · William Marbury v. James Madison · Payne v. Tennessee
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the decision to be applied nonret-roactively must establish a new principle of law, either by overruling clear past precedent on which litigants may have relied, or by deciding an issue of first impression whose resolution was not clearly foreshadowed. Second, it has been stressed that we must ... weigh the merits and demerits in each case by looking to the prior history of the rule in question, its purpose and effect, and whether retrospec tive operation will further or retard its operation. Finally, we have weighed the inequity imposed by retroactive application, for where a decision of this Court could produce substantial inequitable results if applied retroactively, there is ample basis in our cases for avoiding the injustice or hardship by a holding of nonretroac-tivity.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the presumption may be overcome by a sufficiently weighty combination of one or more of the Chevron Oil factors, which [the New Mexico Supreme Court has] espoused.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. J.S. v. P.K. · In Re IK“adopt[ed] a presumption of retroactivity for a new rule imposed by a judicial decision in a civil case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. J.S. v. P.K. · In Re IK
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.